Corona vaccine for children too: Oxford University begins vaccine testing

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London: Oxford University is considering testing its Covid-19 Vaccine on children for the first time. The vaccine test was announced on Saturday. For this, 300 people in the age group of six to 17 years will need to be vaccinated voluntarily. Of these, 240 people will be vaccinated by Covid-19 and the remaining 60 will be vaccinated for meningitis.

Andrew Pollard, the lead researcher at the Oxford Vaccine Trial, said that most children are not seriously ill due to Covid-19, but “it is important to develop immunity because vaccinations will benefit some children.”

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Drug regulators from over 50 countries in the world have approved the introduction of Oxford vaccines produced and supplied by AstraZeneca to people over 18 years of age. Other pharmaceutical companies are also testing their vaccines on children.

Pfizer vaccine is already being applied to people over 16 years of age. It started testing on children up to 12 years of age in October 2020. At the same time, Maderna started testing vaccines on children in December 2020.

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